Elysium Draws Business Leaders to First Global Summit on Validating Model-Based Definition

SOUTHFIELD, Mich.– Elysium Inc., a global provider of interoperability software, hosted its first global user and partner summit in Huntington Beach, California this January. Attendees included a select group of engineering-driven organizations, many of which are engaged in implementing Model-Based Definition (MBD) for all-digital manufacturing processes.

Elysium products are used to translate, repair, and ensure the product data quality and interoperability of 3D CAD/CAM and CAE models.

"Each company that attended our summit has diverse engineering systems and partners," said Annalise Suzuki, director of technology and engagement for Elysium, in the release. "They absolutely must work from a unified digital model that conforms to the highest standards of accuracy for designing, machining, and passing product information to stakeholders across their organizations.

"With the accelerating rise of automated work cells, we're seeing a commensurate supporting investment by industry leaders who are concerned about ensuring that data quality doesn't hold back the processing speeds offered by new technologies grounded in MBD," she continued. "Increased production throughput and quality are key ingredients for profitability and customer satisfaction, whether in aerospace industries or consumer goods manufacturing. Our suite of solutions for the all-digital environment addresses long-standing challenges in data interoperability for both legacy and future products, systems, and platforms."

Renault Sport Formula One Team's Ian Goddard was one of the presenters at the California summit.

"Elysium software is critical to product development within our Formula One racecar program," said Goddard, head of technical partnerships and the engineer in charge of computer-aided engineering (CAE). "We collaborate with other partners like Infiniti, working with the Infiniti European Technical Centre to explore our common reliance on Elysium products. The development cycles of our F1 car center on tight race schedules and require very fast exchange of data without manually stopping to check geometry or question manufacturing process instructions. Our timescales are so critical that a single data issue could mean an important upgrade would miss its race debut, but, with the support of Elysium, this has never occurred.

"Whoever originates the data in our supply chain, it has to read and perform the same for every expert in our network– our data is not allowed to have a pit stop for repair and tuning!"